Church of Scientology International v. Behar, 238 F.3d 168, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's judgment entered 12 January 2001, affirmed the dismissal of the Church's libel action over Time magazine's 1991 cover story. Its strength is that it is the primary appellate judicial text, accessible through a live case law repository. Its limit is that it decides the libel claim's legal merits, not an independent journalistic or historical assessment of the 1991 article's own reporting, which should be weighed separately.
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Citation
AuthorUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
PublisherUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Publication Year2001
URLhttps://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/238/168/515402/
Source TypeCase law
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the primary appellate judicial text itself, accessible through a live case law repository, authoritative for the court's own legal holding. NotesJudgment entered 12 January 2001, affirming dismissal of the libel action over the 1991 Time cover story.
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- New Religious Movements, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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